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NEEDLE BUSH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does needle bush mean?
• NEEDLE BUSH (noun)
The noun NEEDLE BUSH has 1 sense:
1. shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia
Familiarity information: NEEDLE BUSH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Hakea lissosperma; needle-bush; needle bush; needlebush
Hypernyms ("needle bush" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("needle bush" is a member of...):
genus Hakea; Hakea (Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers)
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